Dan Rosenberg discovered that Transmission, a lightwight client forthe Bittorrent filesharing protocol performs insufficient sanitisingof file names specified in .torrent files. This could lead to theoverwrite of local files with the privileges of the user runningTransmission if the user is tricked into opening a malicious torrentfile.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed inversion 1.22-1+lenny2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed inversion 1.77-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your transmission packages.

Upgrade instructions- --------------------

wget url will fetch the file for youdpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line forsources.list as given below: